RE: Re: How many PCs are sold in the UK (and by whom)

["michael.furlong" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I am told that Dell will use whatever component they can=20
>get at a good price at the time, obvioulsy no issue at all for teh=20
>small company or home user.

I have to disagree with this a lot of my clients are small businesses and
home users, dell have a habit of producing systems which aren=92t quite
standard and cause problems down the track. Good price =3D bottom of the
cu=
rve
components =3D unreliability=85 the last thing a home user or small
busines=
s
wants.

An example of this was a few years ago when they produced PCs with a
non-standard power supply (I don=92t recall if it was the connector or what
but it sure wasn=92t standard). Imagine the problems this caused.

Another example of Dells way of working is their all in one printer. These
are re-badged Lexmarks with a non Lexmark printer cartridge=85the
cartridge=
s
last about a week and then you pay dell a fortune for the replacement
cartridge=85=85 not surprising Dell give them away is it?

I was working on a recent Dell system this week, upgrading a cd-rom to a
DVD-Rom/CDRW, in the end I left the old drive in it as it looked like it
wa=
s
going to take me 30 mins just to get it out!=20

I won=92t go into the fact that their sales drones sell XP Home to users
wi=
th
office networks/servers.

Dell Pah!

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/End rant

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark Harrison (Groups)"
<mph@a...>=20
wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:27 +0000, ianh1000 wrote:
> > Who says HP only sell to corporate customers? :-(
> >=20
> > They have them at PC world, DABS etc, perhaps not a direct
sales=20
> > consumer web site, on that I agree.=20
> >=20
>=20
> I said "pretty much only selling to corporate customers" not
that=20
they
> DIDN'T sell to home users - only that they had far far more sales
> through the corporate channels.
>=20
> According to the figures I've got, HP have 22% of the UK PC market
> (after Dell, with 40%).
>=20
> Looking at the PCs that home users buy, I'd estimate that 90%+ of=20
those
> sales must be to corporates... but I'm willing to be proved wrong.=20
I'm
> still trying to hunt down a breakdown that doesn't cost
=C2=A3=C2=A3=C2=
=A3.
>=20
> I know of literally hundreds of people with work-issued HPs or=20
Compaqs
> (an HP company now), but only 1 person who bought an HP or Compaq=20
as a
> home user (and she bought it from a "laptop reconditioning
place")
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